The Time magazine poll found 61 percent said “yes” when asked if God wanted them to be “financially prosperous.”

So-called megapastor Joel Osteen, who preaches “relentlessly upbeat television sermons,” has been influential in spreading a message that says God wants prosperity for his believers, Time said.

However, Pastor Rick Warren, author of the best-selling “The Purpose-Driven Life,” said the notion that God wants all Christians to be wealthy is not in any Bible he’s read. Warren called the belief that faithful Christians are rewarded with earthly riches “baloney.”

“It’s creating a false idol,” said Warren, whose books have outsold Osteen’s by seven to one.